Can Higher Education Affect Change in the Classroom?
More Attention Needed to
Reformed Teaching Principles
Hezel Associates recently completed a year-long experimental study involving more than 1200 students in underperforming districts in three states.
Classroom observations suggested teachers are still teaching in traditional teacher-centered modes in which students are passive receivers of information. For providers of teacher training this means more attention may be needed to reformed approaches to teaching—based on greater student involvement and initiative—that current thinking and national standards hold to be educationally valuable.